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I made some cards???

I made some cards today!  What??  Yep, I made some cards.  It's been awhile!  I've really been wanting to post some new items in my etsy shop.  I sat down today during the kids' naps and came up with these cards.  I had so much fun!  :)

 

 

Also, I ran my 4th 5K today.  I placed 3rd in my age division!  I was so excited to get a medal!!  I didn't have a new personal record time-wise, but I was very happy with how I ran.  My last mile was faster than my first two miles.  I've been working on those negative splits.  There's some runner's talk for you.  LOL!  Here's a picture of me sporting my winnings.  Thanks for stopping by!  

Thank You

      I'm planning to make some thank you cards as gifts for three para's that help in my classroom.  Here's one of the cards I came up with.  I'm really struggling with getting my creativity going.  I rarely have time to craft and when I do find time, it's just a very little bit of time.  Anyway, I'm happy with this one and I hope to get some time tonight to work on a few more.  

      

      This is the photo we're using for our photo Christmas cards.  At least two of us are smiling, right?  :)  Lily was bouncing off the walls and Jack was cranky.  We were fortunate to get this one.  Lily celebrated her 2nd birthday on October 14th and Jack will be 4 months old on December 17th.  He is a good little baby.  We feel so blessed.

      I have no idea when (or if) I'll ever be back to blogging regularly.  For anyone stopping by to read this - thank you! 

You Are One of a Kind

I recently bought some new stamps from The Angel Company and one of the sets is called 'One of a Kind'. I'm wanting to get back into coloring larger images. I get a little intimidated when its a large image, but I just need to practice. I get hung up on what colors to choose, too. This image made it pretty simple on color choice, though. Thanks for stopping by today!

Summer Card Camp - Day 1, Week 2

     It's already Week 2, Day 2 of Summer Card Camp!  I completed a card for this weeks new color combo that was given yesterday.  Here is the color combo-

And here is my card-

     I have a small stash of 6x6 pieces of patterned card stock from when I was a part of a monthly card kit club and found the card stock with the above flowers I felt it represented the red and oranges from the color combo.  I just cut out what I needed and then adhered it to a piece of Wild Asparagus paper from My Mind's Eye.  I stared at the card forever, knowing it needed something else...so I rounded the top left corner and then added the orange gems under the sentiment.  This project was fun and now I'm off to see what is in store for today's card camp class!

 

Supplies-

Card stock - floral paper (misc.), green stipe (My Mind's Eye - Wild Asparagus)

Ink - VersaFine Onyx black (for sentiment) and Tim Holtz's Vintage Photo (for inked edgest of green card stock)

Stamp- The Angel Company

Gems - misc.  

3x3's for my kiddos

I'm a Kindergarten teacher and I like to give my kids a DVD at the end of the year that has pictures from our school year. I didn't have them ready to go on the last day of school, so I told my class I would mail them. I finally have them ready to go and of course had to make a hand stamped 3x3 card to go with each DVD. :) I made a flower card for the girls and a fish card for the boys. I had fun using my Copic markers and Icicle Stickles. Thanks for stopping by!

 

Supplies:

Paper- -The Angel Company's 'Brighten My Day' Designer Collection patterned paper
          -Misc. coordinating card stock 
          -PTI's white card stock

Ink- VersaFine Onyx black for the sentiment and Memento Tuxedo black for the
      image

Stamps- The Angel Company: flower images from 'Beautiful Day', "bubbles" from 'Butterbees and More' and I don't know the name of the set that the fish came from.

Copic Markers- Y19    YG13   YG17   RV17   RV14   V17   V06   

Misc. - Icicle Stickles and gray Tombow Marker 

 

Summer Card Camp - Day 1

    I'm so excited to be apart of Kristina Werner and Jennifer McGuire's Summer Card Camp!!  Yesterday was Day 1 and we were challenged to make a card using the color combo shown below.  

Here's the card that I came up with:

 

    I've been in a card making rut and I'm really hoping this class will give me a boost.  I'm anxious to start today's assignment.  I hope to share it with you soon.  Thanks for stopping by.

Stamps: The Angel Company - Happy Birthday sentiment from 'Swirly Sayings' and the birthday hats are also from a TAC set...but I can't remember the name. 

Ink: Onyx Black VersaFine for the sentiment and Tuxedo Black Momento ink for the birthday hats.

 

Make It Mondays - Go-To Sentiment Card #2

 

     Here is my second Make It Monday: Go-To Sentiment card.  Super clean and simple...just the way I like it.  :)

Supplies-

PTI Green Boutique patterned paper and white cardstock and Hawaiian Shores cardstock
PTI Birthday Basics stamp set
TAC More Elegant Sentiments and More One Liners stamp sets
VersaFine Onyx black ink

 

Make It Mondays - Go-To Sentiment Card

     When I saw PTI's Make It Mondays: Go-To Sentiment card challenge, I just knew I had to try my hand at it.  I had so much fun creating this birthday card!  I already have ideas going through my head for a thank you card.   I used PTI's Dot Spot stamp set and Hawaiian Shores ink to stamp on some flowers that I cut out with some flower dies.  The green, fuzzy brad matches perfectly with the green in this PTI 'Green Boutique' paper.  (I'd been hanging on to that brad for a long time...felt good to finally use it!)  Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies-

PTI 'Green Boutique' patterned paper
PTI Hawaiian Shores cardstock and ink
PTI white cardstock
PTI Birthday Basics and Dot Spot stamp sets
PTI scallop die
TAC More Elegant Sentiments and More One Liners stamp sets
VersaFine Onyx black ink

Birthday Wishes

     It's the start of a new year and that means starting over on my perpetual birthday calendar.  For the month of January, I have 9 birthdays to recognize and my card stash is pretty much gone.  I've been trying to find time to build it back up so I'm ready to go.  I always seem to struggle with coming up with masculine card ideas and was happy to come up with this card above.  Nothing spectacular, but it works.  Hope it's not too '4th of July-ish'...

    

     Lily is 15 months old today.  I still can't believe how fast she is growing up.  My sister snapped this picture of her.  My sister says to Lily , 'And this little piggy went wee, wee, wee, all the way...' and Lily says, 'Hooooooome'.  So, so cute!  A lot of people already know, but I haven't posted here yet...Lily is going to be a big sister!  I'm due August 23rd.  We are very excited and I think Lily is going to be a very good helper.  Well, I better see what else I can accomplish before Lily wakes up from her nap.  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Birthday Wishes-

PTI Kraft cardstock
My Minds Eye patterned paper
The Angel Company Birthday Wishes stamp set
VersaFine black ink

 

Owl's it going?

     I bought SU's owl punch back in September and I finally had a chance to use it last night.  How cute is this owl?  My SU demonstrator shared a few card ideas with me on different ways to use the owl and I also found a ton of ideas just by typing 'SU owl punch' into Google.  I'll leave you with a few links to some other owl cards that I found while searching for ideas.  Thanks for stopping by today!

Julie Edmonds
Melany Watson
Sarah Stetler

 

Supplies-

SU- owl punch
TAC- 'What a Hoot'
CTMH cardstock and patterned paper
PTI- 'Background Basics: Tin Types'
CTMH- Chocolate ink, Hollyhock ink
misc. ribbon